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A CENTURY OF BANKING IN HISTORIC CHARLESTOWN.[Boston] The Bunker Hill Branch of the American Trust Company 1925 First edition Softcover Near fine. Softcover Pamphlet. 32pp. with blue paper wrappers decorated in gold.
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11.98 USD

An Economic-Media Study of Book Publishing.New York The American Textbook Publishers Institute and the American Book Publishers Council 1966 Softcover Good Softcover Plastic comb binding is partly missing. Interior clean and tight. 283 page. Based largely on three concurrent studies ends 1965 and 1966 to provide publishers with information required for long-range business decisions. Survey of the policies and practices of the federal government as they bear upon book publishing. Present and coming technology used in the transfer of information. Present copying practices in schools and colleges.
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50.00 USD

Articles of Association and By-Laws of the Tohickon Detective and Horse and Mule Insurance Company. Incorporated December 10, 1868.1888 Softcover Very good Softcover Pamphlet, approximately 3 3/4" x 6", with original tan-colored printed paper wrappers, stitched as issued. 12pp. A few crease marks and toning to first and past pages from wrapper but otherwise very good.Organized in Bucks County of Pennsylvania following the Civil War, the objectives of this organization were "the detection of thieves and other villains, the recovery of stolen property, the insurance against the loss of Horses and Mules by death, disease or accident, and against the loss of Horses, Mules and other Property by being stolen." Worldcat shows no record of this title.
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60.00 USD

Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Inerpretations...With an Appendix.Washington DC Government Printing Office 1921-1926 Hardcover Very good Hardcover 7 volumes. Volume I: 1920, original tan buckram with light damp stain on boards. 8vo. 183 pp with 14pp 1923 pamphlet laid in, entitled "Organization and General Rules of Procedure". Volume II: 1921, original tan buckram, 8vo, 1,007 pp with 3 pp. typed manuscript on a miscellaneous case pasted to rear free end paper. Volume III:1922, original tan buckram. 1,252 pp. Volume IV: 1923, original tan buckram, 8vo, xxix, 1,005pp. Volume V: 1924, original tan buckram, 8vo. xiii, 1,053 pp. bound with cumulative index to decisions of the Board to January 1, 1925, 188 pp. Volume VI:1926, original tan buckram, 8vo., xiii, 1,491 pp. Volume VII, 1926. Original tan printed wrapper with mimeographed pages. Small 4to. No pagination but over 2,000 pp.. with publication note laid in, indicating that this volume was the final publication of the railroad labor board. Some minor creasing to the lower right hand corner of pages. All volumes are first editions.This is a comprehensive record of the 4,197 decisions dealing with railroad labor throughout America from 1920 to 1926.
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150.00 USD

Duff & Company's Line of Mercantile Colleges at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA. Wheeling, VA., Columbus, Ohio, and Burlington, Iowa.Pittsburgh W.G. Johnston & Co. [1858] Very good Broadside printed on light gray paper, approximately 7 5/8" x 9 5/8". Crease marks from folding but otherwise fully intact.As an immigrant from Scotland, Peter Duff established one of the first business colleges in the United States. By 1851, he had obtained a perpetual charter from the Pennsylvania legislature for "Duff's Mercantile College" to teach accounting and bookkeeping. By the elate 1850's, Duff had colleges in 5 locations. Notable alumni included Henry J. Heinz, founder of H.J. Heinz Company. This broadside, promoting enrollment in all Duff's schools, confirms that "Certificates of Scholarship paid for in any of these establishments are good in all the others."
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75.00 USD

General Store Ledger Book, Vermont, 1882.1882 Hardcover Very good Hardcover Bound ledger book recording the 1882 sales and receipts of a general store in Vermont. 156pp., preceded by 5pp of customer names. Marbled paper-covered boards with black leather spine and corners. Boards worn and leather scuffed but still intact. A duplicate order for fertilizer and a request for collecting inventory consigned to a peddler tipped-in to rear pastedown.
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95.00 USD